Oxalis aurea Schltr.

Stemless, more or less clothed with pluricellular hairs. Bulb (mature) ovoid-conical, 4-5 cm long, with brown splitting tunics, the younger narrow-ovoid with a longish apical beak and pale brown, wrinkled tunics. Rhizome 30 cm or more long, with a brown tunicaceous cortex. Leaves few or many, spreading; petioles terete, pilose, 1-10 cm long; leaflets 3, shortly petiolulate, entirely glabrous, or sometimes densely ciliate and sparsely pilose beneath, often glaucous when dried, the medial cuneate-rotund, obovate or cuneate-obcordate, entire or lightly incised, 1-3.5 cm long and broad, the lateral somewhat oblique, smaller. Peduncles 1-fld., often numerous, 1-8 cm long, pilose, with 2 alternate linear bracts near the calyx. Sepals broadly lanceolate, more or less pilose, 6-6.5 mm long. Corolla glabrous, 2.3-3.4 cm long, rather pale yellow (drying golden yellow), with a wide funnel-shaped tube; petals broadly cuneate, sometimes lightly attenuate towards the base, 1.2-1.9 cm broad. Filaments, the shorter 3-5 mm, the longer 5.5-7 mm long, minutely glandular-pilose, with obtuse teeth. Ovary glandular-pilose and sprinkled with small orange calli on the upper half, the chambers 2-3-ovuled; styles glandular. Seeds without endosperm.